Amanda McCormack from North Devon Moving Image has been working as Artist in Residence with children from Appledore Primary School as part of the HLF funded Beaford Arts Hidden Histories project.

​Hidden Histories is opening up the Beaford Archive of photographs by James Ravilious and Roger Deakins with a major photographic conservation and digitisation exercise.

To complement the work they have been doing on their Hidden Histories community trail, the children interviewed local people reacting to photographs of Appledore taken by James Ravilious in the 1970s and 1980s. They then recreated those scenes in dramatic tableaux to create ten delightful films celebrating both the work of Ravilious and the heritage of their village.

These young creatives loved finding out more about Appledore and following in the footsteps of James Ravilious. They developed new photographic skills as well as becoming film makers and, of course, the stars of the films!

Young film makers at Petroc college in Barnstaple worked with Amanda McCormack from North Devon Moving Image (NDMI) to produce two short videos to help promote the work of Survivors Alliance North Devon (SAND).

SAND provides a specialist counselling service in north Devon for adults who have suffered from sexual abuse or rape. Supported by a grant from the Wace Family Fund via Devon Community Foundation; two groups of learners from the foundation learning programme at Petroc took part in the project. The learners chose SAND from a number of local charitable organisations who pitched for the free digital media support.

Director of SAND, Karen Black says; "We were so delighted and felt privileged to be chosen by the students to design a multi media campaign that would help raise our profile in North Devon. The whole process was made simple and fun by both the students and Amanda and we were highly impressed with the level of student interest and maturity relating to this difficult subject. We are over the moon that through this project many more people in this area will be able to receive help from Survivors Alliance North Devon CIC, and realise that there is a light at the end of the tunnel.”

Chantal Tonks, lead tutor on the Foundation Learning programme at Petroc adds; “The project is really beneficial to our learners, not only to find out more about the services that are available to them in their community but to support an organisation that they have chosen to raise awareness for and to take responsibility for the way the project is delivered. When they see the final results of their work it gives each learner a sense of pride and achievement at completing a media project, that can seem initially challenging, but through learning new skills and working together they have created something that is creative and meaningful. “

North Devon Moving Image was approached by the Life on the Verge - Biosphere project to create some short promotional videos to raise awareness of their work. We spent time with project coordinator Clare Manning and Life on the Verge community volunteers at Fremington Cutting on the Tarka Trail and the village of Knowle near Braunton.

Life on the Verge is working with communities around the North Devon Biosphere to develop knowledge and skills for conserving and improving their road verges for wildlife. It was great to see so many people of all ages coming together in the name of nature! See the three short videos below.

North Devon Moving Image CIC are offering one local charity the opportunity to have a free promotional video produced by young people at Petroc in Barnstaple.

We have received funding from the Wace Family Fund (via Devon Community Foundation) to work on a digital media project with young people who are on the Entry to Employment and Careers Skills programmes. The young people will produce a short video and additional clips for social media to promote a local North Devon charity. The project will run from the beginning of November 2017 until March 2018, culminating in a screening ceremony to which stakeholders and press will be invited.

If any local charities are interested please could they contact me, Amanda McCormack, by email northdevonmovingimage@outlook.com with a summary of the work of their charity and a named contact by Friday 20 October 2017. We will then put all the proposed partners forward for the young people to select who they would like to work with. We will then invite a representative from the selected organisation to meet the young people and give them an idea of what they would like the promotional video to do for them.

Mandi and Dotty from North Devon Moving Image (NDMI) delivered the three day claymation animation workshop in the bright and spacious Kingsley Room at The Burton Art Gallery and Museum in Bideford (thanks for looking after us Burton at Bideford people).

We delivered a brief to the workshop participants to create a short animated story solving an environmental problem (or come up with their own idea to make the world a better place). They worked in parent/child and individual/enabler pairs to come up with an invention, write a story and script, create characters, sets and props. We had a huge pile of fabulous resources from North Devon's WOW Scrapstore (£7 a bin bagful for members) and lots of colourful Newplast modelling clay to ignite their imaginations and then each team animated their films using iPads and iMotion or iStopmotion apps. We think the results are quite wonderful! Take a look at the video clip below.

If you know a group who would like to take part in a workshop like this please do get in touch.

We have had a busy two weeks here in Instow with our first ever NDMI Academy summer schools. Week 1 was a live action drama film making workshop for 5 young film makers aged between 10 and 13. The creative team devised their own story and with our support they wrote, directed, acted in, shot and edited the film He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not (see below to view the film). The crew learned loads of new skills and worked together perfectly, coming up with great ideas and making time to listen to each other and let everyone's voice be heard with a brilliant result!

NOTE: The technical kit used was our Sony NX3 camcorder, Rode microphone with boom pole and deadcat and Sony Vegas to edit. Additional film making exercises were carried out with the use of our iPad Air, iOgrapher case, iRig pre amp and the professional Rode microphone.

NDMI Academy Summer School week 2 was an animation workshop for 5 talented youngsters aged between 7 and 11. This was great fun and we were so impressed by the creativity and patience of all our young film makers. They began the week getting to grips with the technical equipment and then recorded interviews with each other to form the basis of the film sound track. They went on to design and create their characters, props and sets. The animating was a great challenge as the audio was already recorded and the characters needed to move to fit the voices - we don't take the easy route here - and it definitely paid off as the result, with authentic interviews is really entertaining and the animation is brilliant! Take a look at the film below.

NOTE: The technical kit used was our iPad Air in an iOgrapher case, iMotion app, Rode microphone, iRig pre amp, Newplast modelling clay and Magneflash LED lights (great because they don't get hot and dangerous!)

If you are interested in film making workshops for your family, group, school or yourself please do get in touch.

A team of young people in North Devon are getting set to create a series of promotional videos for local charities with the support of North Devon Moving Image.

Thanks to grant funding from Wace Family Fund via Devon Community Foundation North Devon Moving Image (NDMI) is delighted to announce the launch of the Barnstaple Youth Social Action Project.

Chantal Tonks, who works with young people on the Careers Skills and Entry to Employment programmes at Petroc in Barnstaple, says “I am really excited to be working with NDMI again; the relationship between our young people and NDMI has been very successful in the past with some excellent results. Our current cohort who are returning next year are looking forward to the opportunity of working with NDMI focusing on an area that they feel passionate about.”​

The young film makers will work in small groups, each choosing a charity close to their hearts. They will work together over the next year to learn and develop their communication and digital media skills, producing a series of short films for the charities to use as presentations and for distribution via social media.

North Devon Moving Image CIC (NDMI) is recruiting for a voluntary Treasurer.

We are looking for an individual with an interest in the communities of North Devon, education, heritage, arts and culture. The Treasurer will be asked to take over responsibility for preparing the annual company accounts and submitting to HMRC and Companies House, so experience in this field is essential.

The Treasurer will be invited to enrol as a Company Director although this is not essential. There will be an opportunity for the Treasurer to be involved with fundraising, project work and future development of the organisation if they wish.

In the recruitment process all individuals will be treated in a fair and equal manner and in accordance with the law regardless of gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability or sexual orientation.

Please get in touch with Amanda McCormack, Creative Director NDMI by email northdevonmovingimage@outlook.com or telephone 01271 860610 or use the contact form on this website.

A day of sharing, listening and recording stories from north Devon glove industry workers at the The Burton Art Gallery and Museum in Bideford was memorable event. We met some fabulous characters who brought in photographs and glove making artefacts - including some beautiful gloves - and heard stories about the work that went on in the now disappeared gloving industry in the area.

Below is a photo gallery of our drop in event and we are now hard at work editing the short films which will make up the Glove Stories series.* The complete series of films will be uploaded to our Youtube Channel and be available to watch free on our films page. There will be a screening of a selection of Glove Stories films at White Moose Gallery in Barnstaple on Thursday 14 July 2014 (contact the gallery to book) and the Burton Art Gallery will be holding a Glove Stories film evening in the near future (watch this space for more information).

Our friend Sue Rossiter is also running some community events associated with the glove industry as part of her Hand to Hand project - for more information click here.

Many thanks to all our visitors, volunteers and staff who made the Glove Stories drop in event such a success. If you would like to contribute a written Glove Story (see photos below) please get in touch or pick up a story glove form from the Burton in Bideford.